| Frederic Thomas Hall - 1883 - 448 páginas
...hundreds of shark-like teeth.1 The Plesiosaurus " to the head of a lizard, united the teeth of the crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale.2 The Atlantosaurus, the largest land animal ever known to have... | |
| Martin Simpson - 1884 - 288 páginas
...and in its characters, the most anomolous which had been discovered amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." The Plesiosaurns is readily distinguished from the rest of... | |
| 1885 - 436 páginas
...possessed the head and teeth of a crocodile with a neck of extraordinary length.* resembling the hody of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon and the paddles of a. whale. It was aquatic and lived most probably in the sea, if we arc... | |
| Warren Raymond Perce - 1897 - 410 páginas
...from twenty to forty vertebras. Twenty-two species have been described. In the words of Buckland, " To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." There were flying saurians called pterosaurs, of which about... | |
| Erica Quest - 1908 - 336 páginas
...great sea-lizards known as Saurians. One of them is thus described by Cuvier, a famous naturalist : "To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." Commonest among ordinary shell-fish were ammonites (chambered... | |
| 1837 - 658 páginas
...yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. It possessed a lizard's head, with crocodile teeth, a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale! " Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in... | |
| James De Mille, Malcolm Parks - 1986 - 394 páginas
...of an account of this reptile in Richard Owen's Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (1854): "To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." The remainder of De Mille's description is also based on Owen's... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1837 - 654 páginas
...lithe, and serpent-like, is peculiarly his own. ' To the head of the lizard,' says Dr. Bucklaiul, ' it united the teeth of a crocodile ; a neck of enormous...proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; the ribs of a cameleon, and ' the paddles of a whale.' Of all the monsters of the ancient world, Cuvier accounts... | |
| 1857 - 380 páginas
...discovered amid the ruins of a former world. Owen describes it as having the head of a lizard united to the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chamelion, and the paddles of a whale. " And such," writes Dr. Buckland, " are the strange combinations... | |
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